f 'Tau 



RED PHALAROPE. 



(Phalaropus fuUcarius, Bonap. Syn. No. 277. P. j^^^ty^^i^^^chus, 

 Temm. Man. d'Orn. ii. p. 712. P. hyperboreus, (also P. fuUca- 

 rius.) Wilson, ix. p. 75. pi. 73. fig. 4. Red Phalarope, (Trin- 

 ga fulicaria.) Peni^ . Arct. Zool. No. 413. The Red Coot-footed 

 Tringa, (Tringa r^ifa.) Edw. pi. 142. Phil. Museum, No. 4088.) 



Sp. Charact. — Blackish, varied with rusty, beneath rufous. — Win- 

 ter dress cinereous, beneath white. Young ashy-brown, varied 

 with yellowish-rufous ; beneath white. 



The Flat-Billed, or Red Phalarope, inhabits the whole 

 Arctic circle during summer, where, in the security of soli- 

 tude, it passes the important period of reproduction. It is 

 observed in the north and east of Europe ; in abundance in 

 Siberia, upon the banks of lakes and rivers, and it extends 

 its vernal migrations to the borders of the Caspian. They 

 abound in the hyperboreal regions of America, breeding on 

 the North Georgian Islands, and the remote and wintry 

 coasts of Melville Peninsula. The late enterprising and 



